University of Oxford
📍 Oxford · United Kingdom · Europe
QS Overall #3 · QS Accounting/Finance #4
🎓 Academic Program
BA Economics and Management (E&M) — no standalone Accounting. Said Business School at graduate level.
🎯 Admissions
📊 Exam Requirements
📅 Deadlines
💰 Financial Aid & Scholarships
📑 Scholarship requirements
- Very limited for international UG
- Rhodes Scholarship (GRADUATE only): age limit 24, requires bachelor's degree
- Clarendon Fund (GRADUATE only)
- Weidenfeld-Hoffmann (GRADUATE only): developing countries
- Oxford Centre Scholarships (some country-specific)
- Mongolian government scholarship is the most viable route
🔄 Scholarship maintenance
Maintain academic excellence. Annual review.
⚠️ Conditions & restrictions
- No need-blind or full-coverage UG scholarship exists
- Tuition + living = £52,000/yr typically
- Best route: home government sponsor
📝 Application requirements
- UCAS application by October 15
- Personal statement
- Predicted grades
- TSA (Thinking Skills Assessment) — register by October 15, test in October/November
- INTERVIEW required — online for international students, in December
- Written work submission for some courses
✍️ Supplemental essay prompts (2025-2026)
- UCAS Personal Statement (500 words) — show genuine intellectual curiosity in Economics/Management. Reference specific concepts you've explored beyond syllabus.
⭐ "Why Us?" — Essay hooks & school personality
World's 2nd oldest university (founded c. 1096). Tutorial system (1-on-1 teaching). Bodleian Library. Christ Church and other historic colleges. Oxford Union debating. May Day celebrations. Rhodes House for scholars. Said Business School.
🏆 Unique advantages
Best-known global brand in higher education. Tutorial system = personalized teaching. Strong global alumni network. Beautiful medieval architecture.
💼 Career outlook
Top McKinsey, Bain, Goldman Sachs London recruitment. Strong UK Civil Service entry. Said MBA pathway.
⏰ Work while studying
Tier 4 student visa: 20 hrs/week term. Limited time given tutorial workload.
🎯 Backup plans
- Apply OCTOBER 15 deadline — no exceptions
- Cambridge as alternative (similar October deadline)
- LSE/UCL also strong UK options
- Mongolian government scholarship essential
- Consider master's via Rhodes/Clarendon (better funding route)
🔗 Official sources
- ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate
- ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/fees-and-funding